Irena Sendler

orders of his superior, Ho, for humanitarian reasons, started to issue visas to Shanghai” (People who saved Jews). Ho saved a lot of people by trusting himself and not listening to his superior. Moreover, Irena Sendler was able to stand up for what she believed in. To show a reference, “[Irena Sendler] helped save 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto by providing them with false documents and sheltering them in individual and group children’s homes outside the ghetto”(People who saved…

own life to make others better. Even if these women had their own personal problems, they would put them aside to make others problems shrink. Many of these women have risked everything they had to help others. Mother Teresa, Dorothea Dix, and Irena Sendler are just a few examples of world changing women from our past. Mother Teresa is just one prime examples of women from our past that has impacted today’s generation. Mother Teresa was born on August 26 of 1910 in Skopje, Macedonia to an…

For example, when Irena Sendler, a Poland Jew helped get about 2500 children out of a walled in ghetto they were rounded up into by the Nazis during WWII. She was also to sneak food and medicine into the ghetto, leading to her getting tortured and her legs broken. Another example…

Isolated and fearing capture by the Nazis, 15-year-old girl, Anne Frank went in hiding for two years with a slim chance of survival. As a way of expressing her feelings, Anne wrote it all down inside her beloved diary. Before her capture in the hiding place, she wrote that “despite everything… people are really good at heart” (Frank 263). How could someone whose life had been turned upside down still say that there is goodness inside everyone? Anne’s words in her final journal entry illustrates…

January, 1933 to May, 1945; a calamitous and tragic time period where six million Jews were taken out of existence. No one could foresee that a demanding, judgmental, and controlling leader was going to take over the presidency of Germany and order for the torture, misery, and execution of a manifold of innocent people. Adolf Hitler, born in 1889, grew up in close proximity to the border of Germany and eventually led his way up the political chain and became chancellor in 1932. From being…

Holocaust, due to non-Jewish women that kept them hidden in there homes or work places and those women that “lead Communist and Zionist youth movements” (experience and expression) for the protection of Jewish women. For example a woman named Irena Sendler was a German women working as a social worker for German government, used her job to her advantage and helped many Jewish women. When the holocaust began . When the Council for Aid to Jews was started, Irene Slender became one of the most…

Imagine waking up early on a Sunday morning and getting dressed for church, going downstairs to make breakfast. After breakfast the walk to church begins, seeing as it is just down the road from home. The September air is crisp and a little cold, and the sweater you put on has proved useful. Shoes crunch against the dirt road beneath them, the sound amplifying as neighbours begin their walks as well. Even from across the field people are walking in the direction of the church. Entering mass, the…